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In the options of buddypress you can set the name of the name-field. There you can write “Username (repeated)” or something like this, so that new Users know that they should write the same name again.

No code, no plugin, just easy going

Yesterday I had a problem accessing bbpress dashboard, It directsd me to the main forum page again

deleted bb-config, droped all bb_ tables and install it again & worked with me.

I donno is it related to the same problem or Not

@moshthepitt I checked out your site it seems you fixed the problem. Can you post your fix?

I don’t particularly want to install bbpress separately. I’d quite like to extend the functionality for ‘standard’ buddypress setup.

The setup on http://help.deanjrobinson.com is good, but with various group extensions you may not want the group itself being visible to general site users. I can imagine that this will become even more of an issue now that the activty stream functionality is starting to outstrip the forum functionality – I’m finding lots of users aren’t bothering with their group forums anymore and are instead using activity stream to hold discussions.

see this

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/wp-with-bp-plugin-how-do-i-get-rid-of-groups-and-keep-forum#post-39818

I’m currently working on a project which has the goal to set up a social network for staff members at a university. I would really appreciate to hear about your experiences … which plugins do you use, which funcionality do you offer …

@hempsworth

I thought about your question: pomo or changeable in the admin-section.

I think most people able to run BP and dependant plugins will at least understand something of English. So they’ll understand the plugin-admin in English.

I did a bit of translating using pomo’s before. It’s not really user friendly. So just being able to quickly change/translate all strings from the backend would be fine for me. Think it might just be the most user friendly option.

Having said that: I’ll translate the plugin to Dutch. No problem.

I’ve no doubt they’ll return, but I haven’t had a spam signup for a fair while. The odd one creeps in, but you can’t stop a determined ‘real’ person. But I haven’t been subject to the continuous signups I used to get when I first started my site.

The steps I’ve taken are:

Rename (not remove) wp-signup.php

Use custom bp-register slug

Removed “powered by” type text in the footer and other obviously WP / BP phrases

Installed NoSpamNX

Installed WP-BAN

Installed SI Captcha

Employed the .htaccess rules explained here: http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/

Nothing’s perfect against spam, but certainly for me, these things have helped.

I don’t think this is something to worry about. It’s not a security problem as far as I can tell. You can do this with any website, it’s simply just adding an extra GET param to a URL.

Check out this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

It will allow you to exempt that field from the standard BP search string function. You could also add a little customisation in the settings file to set your Company field to redirect to somewhere else as you’re suggesting here.

I’m having the exact same issue. I have buddy Press full integrated into my site and all parts of it are functioning. I figured the next step would be to add forums. With that in mind, I uploaded the bbpress files into my /forums/ directory and followed the installation instructions from the site (I have tried it 3 times using integration and once without)

I used the Forums Setup from Buddy Press each time to create the bb-config.php file. Each time the installer found the file and thing seemed to go OK. When I was using integration at the end of the install it found and suggested that I use the wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums directory for the location of my forum… each time I said yes.

While using integration it would report a small error that the bb-config.php file was not writeable so I would have to create the key entries myself. Even though I made the bb-config.phhp file (in the root) writeable, this made not difference in the installation error message. (My guess is that the installer is looking at the ‘fake’ bb-config.php file in the forum location directory.

The installation without integration completed successfully with now error messages.

Every time I try to log in, or visit the forum, or visit the admin page all I get is a blank screen… view source shows no source at all. If I examine the directories on the server, the forum files are located there.

Anyone have an idea of what I’m doing wrong? Or what might be going wrong.

I find it hard to conceive of why a social networking site would NOT have a single place of communication, e.g. for tech support, newcomers, general discussion.

Create groups for “Tech Support”, “Newcomers”, “General Discussion”. I consistently fail to understand how people don’t get this. I’m in the process of converting BuddyPress.org to this model, perhaps then people will get it.

@modemlooper, cool stuff! you know if the tweetsream plugin works to on the template? would be great!

You can have a look at how I’ve done it here if you like:

http://namoo.co.uk/blog/2010/02/25/blogstandard-theme-released/

It’s as simple as going to the reading settings in your admin backend and choosing the activity stream. If you then want to show your blog home too you also need to create a new page.

Full translation support is coming in 0.0.6, if you are interested in translating the plugin into your language please let me know and I can create the translation set over on my GlotPress install which will allow you to easily translate the strings.

http://labs.alexhemptonsmith.com/translate/projects/buddypress-like

I’d like to do the italian translation. Thanks.

@Andy Sounds good I look forward to the new design. Have you considered integrating something like this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/idea-for-stimulating-plugin-development ?

Using 1.2.1? If not then this is the problem.